meat pie
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.06 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hand-sized pot pie containing largely minced meat and gravy and typically consumed as a takeaway food snack.
Australian usage; New Zealand usage; Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "My sister-in-law from Corsica makes the best quiche and the best meat pie in the world."
- "If flour ran short we can be certain it was saved for gravies, dumplings, cakes and gingerbread, and pie crust, and most particularly for meat pie."
- "She averted her eyes, looking toward Crispin, who ate meat pie and a large slice of roasted ox with healthy relish and without seeming to notice her discomfort."
- "In the case of meat pies that have a jelly or stock added after cooking, the stock and meat should be sampled separately as well as together in a combined sample."
- "Meat pies, which used to be a traditional Acadian Christmastime treat, are one of Louisiana′s least-touted specialties."
- "It was to Liubotyn station that I and my best mate Sasha once ventured on our lives' first (meaning without the adults) train ride. […] We got off at Liubotyn, then sleepy and unmistakeably rural, bought a couple of wrinkled meat pies at a station kiosk, and got back on the train."
Usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Food.